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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for the Oakland, California-based garage rock band was recorded in Nashville by producer Dan Auerbach.
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- Record Label: Easy Eye Sound
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 20, 2021Year of the Spider is the work of four musicians who are not content to be goofballs -- they can maintain their creative vision while making more of it, and it's a great step forward for a band that's becoming deeper and more satisfying than one might have expected.
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Aug 18, 2021Year of the Spider continues Shannon & The Clams run of catchy, quirky offerings while dealing with the pain and loss that is everywhere.
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Aug 18, 2021Taken together, the music of Year Of The Spider is anything but stuck in the past. Its novel sonic alloys, and punk rock spirit, very much ring of right now. [Sep 2021, p.20]
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Aug 18, 2021The 13 tracks are crammed into less than 40 minutes (seven cuts clock in under three), which also suits the group’s single-oriented, tightly knit aesthetic. It helps make Year of the Spider such a nonstop delight, one that casts its web by expanding and transcending Shannon and the Clams’ “punk oldies” moniker.
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Aug 19, 2021Shannon and The Clams’ latest record is a rip-roaring listen.
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Aug 26, 2021For all the struggle that inspired the record, Shannon and the Clams embrace the change with grace.
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MojoAug 18, 2021In the main, conjure strange, eerie atmospheres filled with ghostly spirits like those inhabiting the recordings of Del Shannon and Joe Meek. [Oct 2021, p.95]